{"id":34845,"date":"2025-07-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=34845"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:24:44","slug":"review-the-night-guest-by-hildur-knutsdottir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=34845","title":{"rendered":"#Review – The Night Guest by Hildur Kn\u00fatsd\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hildur Kn\u00fatsd\u00f3ttir’s\u00a0The Night Guest<\/em>\u00a0is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjav\u00edk that\u2019s sure to keep you awake at night.<\/strong>

I\u00f0unn is in yet another doctor’s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something’s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven’t revealed any cause.

When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same \u2014 have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.

Until one night I\u00f0unn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she\u2019s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .

What is happening when she\u2019s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won\u2019t anyone believe her?<\/p>\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve been listening to more audio books lately while I\u2019m walking. I\u2019m trying to beat my yearly goal of books read\/listened to. But I find longer audio books aren\u2019t for me at the moment and it takes me forever to listen to them. So I came across some 3 hour audio books and it\u2019s the perfect length! With that said, please see below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRIGGER WARNING: Animal death, specifically cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that we got that out of the way, I read a few reviews for this audio book and was nervous to start but also intrigued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A woman randomly walks 40k steps during the night and doesn\u2019t know why or how or where the heck she went? Sign me up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then I learned about the animal cruelty, cats especially and was extra concerned but I started listening to the book anyway. As a reader, can I just say that I love love love the short chapters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really enjoyed the narrator for this book and I also loved learning a little bit about Iceland. I will get there one day as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will start by saying that I expected way worse after reading some of the reviews but I\u2019m also thankful for them as well, so at least I knew what to expect in a way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it\u2019s because I read extreme horror that I could be desensitized because I\u2019ve read WAY worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this short novella, we learn about I\u00f0unn and her what she does day to day, her friends, family and her partners and ex partners. She\u2019s someone who doesn\u2019t sleep overly well \u2013 welcome to the club, sweetheart \u2013 but tries to make it so she does. With some tips from her friends, she gets a smartwatch and begins her daily allotted 10k steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she soon learns that she\u2019s also walking while sleeping. As a walker\/runner myself, that would freak me out. At the same time, I would be thankful for the extra steps. I would also want to know where I\u2019m going at night and why I wake up so sore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes a bit for I\u00f0unn to figure out what\u2019s going on with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was left feeling a little confused at the end but maybe that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was it all in her head? Did she really experience sleep walking during the night? Was it something else? Split personality maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Either way, even though I was left with a few questions, I still really enjoyed the story and I think the narrator helped with that a lot. I would totally listen to more books that she narrated and also listen to more books from this author as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hildur Kn\u00fatsd\u00f3ttir’s\u00a0The Night Guest\u00a0is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjav\u00edk that\u2019s sure to keep you awake at night. I\u00f0unn is in yet another doctor’s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something’s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven’t revealed any cause. When she talks … Continue reading #Review – The Night Guest by Hildur Kn\u00fatsd\u00f3ttir<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1195,1029,30,437],"tags":[1821],"class_list":["post-34845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-book","category-horror","category-novella","category-standalone","tag-hildur-knutsdottir"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-941","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34849,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34845\/revisions\/34849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}